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Oregon residents are being asked to contact police if they see a 30-foot tall gorilla — wearing sunglasses and polka dot shorts. He's carrying a hot tub, and may or may not be inflated. The giant gorilla stood for four years on top of the Spas of Oregon store in Gladstone.

Each year Chinese youth teams send members to a Brazilian academy for 10 months of soccer coupled with regular school lessons, including classes in Portuguese.

U.S.-China tensions are rising on almost every front, and there are plenty of parallels to the U.S.-Soviet rivalry. Analysts say competition is inevitable, but doesn't have to lead to confrontation.

Have you ever listened to NPR and wondered who chooses those songs you hear between stories and interviews? We've asked four directors to curate playlists and set a mood.

A new NPR poll shows where things stand after Biden's bad debate. Many Palestinian residents in Gaza were just returning to find their homes gone.

The 18th century Catalan tradition of castelling, the building of human towers, or castles, is undergoing a renaissance today. This has accompanied a rise in Catalan nationalism.

Navalny and eight of his allies — including top aides Lyubov Sobol and Georgy Alburov — were on Tuesday added to the registry by Russia's Federal Financial Monitoring Service.

Rain from Hurricane Isaac has topped an 18 foot section of a levee in southeastern Louisiana. For more on what's going on in the area, Steve Inskeep talks to Jennifer Hale, a reporter for local television station WVUE.

In 2018, Haskell Elementary School in Rockford was deemed one of the lowest-performing schools in Illinois. Now, it’s shot all the way to the top. WNIJ’s Peter Medlin reports…

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